Rails - Jan 2008 - Why are parameter values getting lost?

Hi,

I have this login form (app/views/register/start.rhtml):

<% form_tag ''session/new'' do -%>
<p><label for="login">Login</label><br/>
<%= text_field_tag ''login'' %></p>
<p><label for="password">Password</label><br/>
<%= password_field_tag ''password'' %></p>
<p><%= submit_tag ''Log in'' %></p>
<% end -%>

But it seems when my form is getting processed by my app/controllers/
session_controller.rb controller, the value of the login parameter is
NULL.  Here''s the controller code and the entry from the log file:

===============controller code===============================  def create
    self.current_user = User.authenticate(params[:login],
params[:password])
    if logged_in?
      if params[:remember_me] == "1"
        self.current_user.remember_me
        cookies[:auth_token] = { :value =>
self.current_user.remember_token , :expires =>
self.current_user.remember_token_expires_at }
      end
      # The next two lines were added 1/24/08
      @user = User.find(:first, :conditions => ["login = ?",
params[:login]])
      session[:user_id] = @user.id
      flash[:notice] = "Logged in successfully"
      redirect_to :controller => ''order'', :action =>
''start''
    else
      flash[:error] = "Authentication failed."
      redirect_to :controller => ''register'', :action =>
''start''
    end
  end
================end controller code===========================
===============Log file entry begin ============================Processing
SessionController#new (for 67.190.94.163 at 2008-01-28
11:00:03) [POST]
  Session ID: ed02a351a99f5581a92ac20208cad3b7
  Parameters: {"commit"=>"Log in",
"action"=>"new",
"controller"=>"session",
"login"=>"abc", "password"=>"abc"}
Redirected to http://remandev.no-ip.org:3000/session/create
Completed in 0.00217 (461 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 302 Found
[http://remandev.no-ip.org/session/new]


Processing SessionController#create (for 67.190.94.163 at 2008-01-28
11:00:04) [GET]
  Session ID: ed02a351a99f5581a92ac20208cad3b7
  Parameters: {"action"=>"create",
"controller"=>"session"}
  ^[[4;36;1mUser Columns (0.005551)^[[0m   ^[[0;1mSHOW FIELDS FROM
users^[[0m
  ^[[4;35;1mUser Load (0.003246)^[[0m   ^[[0mSELECT * FROM users WHERE
(users.`login` IS NULL) LIMIT 1^[[0m
Redirected to http://remandev.no-ip.org:3000/
Completed in 0.02045 (48 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.00880 (43%) | 302 Found
[http://remandev.no-ip.org/session/create]
========================End log
file================================================

Why is the parameter value getting lost?

Thanks, - Dave

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i''m pretty sure it''s to do with the bit when you redirect to
''create''

i''m not sure why you''re doing it like that but to keep hold of
the
params i think you need to put them in local(?) variables....when you 
receive them in new you need to say, for example, @login = 
params[:login], @password = params[:password], then I THINK you''ll be 
able to see these variables in your create action
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